Walking Into Spring Like…

Over the past month, I’ve been busy with multiple buyers looking for both rental and second-home properties. With residential inventory now below 270, I’ve never seen a market like this. Every month I seem to say that, and yet every month, I continue to be surprised! Remember, that I often know of properties before they hit the market, so let me be your “boots on the ground” in your home search. Click HERE for a map search of all MLS listings currently active.
Top Three Summer Events In Vail
BravoVail!

GoPro Mountain Games
Thousands of pro and amateur adventure athletes sign up each year and converge upon the mountains and rivers of Vail to compete in 11 disciplines and more than 30 competitions including kayaking, running, slackline, DockDogs, trail running, mountain and road cycling, climbing, photography and more. The competitions are just the beginning. The event also features the GoPro Mountains of Music LIVE concert series throughout the weekend.
Vail Dance Festival

My Future Pathways: Providing Access to Education
My Future Pathways is the vision of Ron Davis, the founder of the highly successful Guardian Scholars Program, a nationally recognized model providing comprehensive scholarship, life coaching, mentoring, and personalized attention for foster youth and first-generation students Making Their Dreams of a college education a reality. For more than 20 years, Ron has focused on developing and enhancing programs for underserved youth.
In 2019, he became motivated to fund My Future Pathways based on his research and first-hand knowledge of the increasing social and emotional needs of first generation youth in the Vail Valley to find Positive Life Pathways.Ron was motivated and blessed with the opportunity to partner with Bratzo Horruitiner.
Bratzo is a passionate professional with over 18 years of experience in creative and positive youth development, sports coaching, and youth-centered program design and execution. Bratzo is a caring leader that is able to bring parents, teams, and people together to work in collaboration to create Positive Pathways. As Executive Director, Bratzo will apply his passion, energy, and skills to lead My Future Pathways and achieve its goal of creating Positive Life Pathways for first-generation Vail Valley youth.
It is Ron’s vision that, like Guardian Scholars, the efforts of My Future Pathways can be replicated to support first generation youth beyond Colorado. To that end, My Future Pathways has been started in California in collaboration with Orange Coast College and Cal State University Fullerton. As a Community College AA graduate, Ron understands the value of Community College in creating a Positive Pathway.
In Real Estate News…
Between March 15th and April 15th, residential sales volume increased a staggering306% compared to the same period in 2020. While we fully expected this time period to outperform that of 2020, these are truly incredible numbers when looking at the county’s 5-10 year history. In this competitive market, we’ve seen an impressive increase in the number of new contracts written – nearly 600% compared to this time last year!
